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Bernie Clark Says the Future of Yoga Will Be as Unpredictable as It's Always Been

“There never was one yoga...Going forward yoga will continue to defy definition and attribution.”

Yoga has meant a variety of things to a host of people over the millennia: it can be a practice or the end result of a practice; it can be union or it can be divorce and liberation from a non-dualistic world view; it can be Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sufi, Christian, etc. No one invented yoga, no one can claim ownership (including cultural ownership) and no one can determine what yoga should be. Imagine if someone said “only Christians are allowed to pray and only Christians know the proper way to pray!” Prayer does not belong to anyone so anyone can pray, and do so in their own way.

The one overriding comment I would make when looking at yoga past, present, or future is that people should realize that there never was “one” yoga.